Greenpeace weblogs

Our weblogs from around the world. Making Waves covers general Greenpeace and environmental news, Nuclear Reaction spotlights the nuclear industry, and from Greenpeace UK, the Energydesk, reporting on Energy and Climate issues.

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Can you spare a moment to answer 12 questions for our energy efficiency campaign . The questionnaire is mostly about incandescent light bulbs (symbol for a bright idea in cartoons). They waste over 95% of the electricity they...

Under a (literally) stormy sky Greenpeace activists staged a "die in" today at the annual general meeting of Asia’s largest privately owned power utility - China Light and Power (CLP). Local activists where joined at the Hong Kong...

EU and G8 ministers were meeting in Berlin to talk about energy efficiency, and we wanted to make an impression. So we took 10,000 old fashioned energy wasting incandescent lightbulbs and crushed them with a mechanized roller. ...

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Mike Townsley writes: Today the UK Government will announce an inquiry into revelations that for over 30 years, body parts of nuclear industry workers who died in suspicious circumstances were taken for medical investigation without...

I'm listening to the UN Security Council climate change debate via live webcast . I haven't followed the whole thing, but most speakers are saying the same thing: Climate change should not been seen as an environmental alone. It's...

When I lived in Italy on an olive farm (that phrase must be said in a wistful voice), it was well known that Italy kept the truly best olive oil for domestic use, and exported the rest. That included oil that was imported from other...

For the first time in years, I actually did something to celebrate Earth Day. I joined the Tour of the Fireflies : a 50km bike ride to promote clean air and as a member of SolarGeneration , clean energy as well. A newbie of...

The decision to formally resume commercial whaling is being seriously re-thought in Iceland - as can be seen from an interview with its Prime Minister Geir Haarde. From Reuters : Haarde, facing elections on May 12, said the...